Hi
Bought a pc from a friend for my father in law. It has:-
AMD 3800 dual core
4 sticks of kingston memory totalling 1.5gb
ECS kn1 sli mobo
160 gig hd - not sure of spec
DVD/CD Writer - not sure of spec
256mb pci express vid card
sound card
Friend (and he is genuine so I have no reason to doubt him) had no issues, but it freezes randomly for me. I say randomly seems to be whenever PC has plenty to think about i.e. large data transfer from usb2 drive.
So far, have reinstalled XP sp2, lifted memory and tried each stick one by one. Updated the bios, checked bios settings against recommended in mobo manual. Originally thought the issue was with USB 2.0, so changed to USB 1.0 in bios and seemed fine transfering data, but has same issue running other activities so not this. Jumpers on mobo fine. Tried driver software re-insital form mobo disc. No obvious issues in device mgr.
Replaced cpu fan as it was noisey, used compound etc. Temperatures are fine, all below 40 deg c. Did find a stability problem with psu, so changed it today for a new 450 watt unit and checked and remade all connectors inc those to mobo, HD, CD, etc, this has sorted the psu issue.
But still freezing, no bsod, just screen freezes, no mouse, keyboard operation. Seems to be dumping various event issues 3001, 3011, regularly 7023. Haven't run memtest as I tried each mem strip separately and got the same issue, so can't see this as a mem problem. Reads CDs without problem. Tried virus check no reported problems.
Friend wiped HD and did a fresh install of xp sp2, this seems to be when the issue started, all above have been done since and have made no impact. otherwise good quick(ish) pc. Was running xp2 sp2 before when my friend had it, he built the pc about 4 years ago.
Anyone have any ideas ?
Bought a pc from a friend for my father in law. It has:-
AMD 3800 dual core
4 sticks of kingston memory totalling 1.5gb
ECS kn1 sli mobo
160 gig hd - not sure of spec
DVD/CD Writer - not sure of spec
256mb pci express vid card
sound card
Friend (and he is genuine so I have no reason to doubt him) had no issues, but it freezes randomly for me. I say randomly seems to be whenever PC has plenty to think about i.e. large data transfer from usb2 drive.
So far, have reinstalled XP sp2, lifted memory and tried each stick one by one. Updated the bios, checked bios settings against recommended in mobo manual. Originally thought the issue was with USB 2.0, so changed to USB 1.0 in bios and seemed fine transfering data, but has same issue running other activities so not this. Jumpers on mobo fine. Tried driver software re-insital form mobo disc. No obvious issues in device mgr.
Replaced cpu fan as it was noisey, used compound etc. Temperatures are fine, all below 40 deg c. Did find a stability problem with psu, so changed it today for a new 450 watt unit and checked and remade all connectors inc those to mobo, HD, CD, etc, this has sorted the psu issue.
But still freezing, no bsod, just screen freezes, no mouse, keyboard operation. Seems to be dumping various event issues 3001, 3011, regularly 7023. Haven't run memtest as I tried each mem strip separately and got the same issue, so can't see this as a mem problem. Reads CDs without problem. Tried virus check no reported problems.
Friend wiped HD and did a fresh install of xp sp2, this seems to be when the issue started, all above have been done since and have made no impact. otherwise good quick(ish) pc. Was running xp2 sp2 before when my friend had it, he built the pc about 4 years ago.
Anyone have any ideas ?